[1][2] Terveen is a professor of computer science and engineering[3] and studies human-computer interaction at GroupLens Research at the University of Minnesota.

In 2008, Terveen and colleagues created Cyclopath, a path recommender system for cyclists in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota.

[4] Terveen co-authored the article "Evaluating collaborative filtering recommender systems", which has been cited almost four thousand times in scientific research.

[5] In 2023, Terveen received SIGCHI's Lifetime Service Award.

[6] Terveen's family is from Emery, South Dakota.